Re: FVWM: Where's stdout + stderr

Jaimos Skriletz <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Nov 2021 17:33:15 -0700

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On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 5:25 PM Dominik Vogt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The Devuan upgrade finally forces me to switch to v3, but it's
> giving me a _hard_ time debugging the configuration during the
> transition.  There is zero indication of what fvwm is doing in the
> console output.  Where's the error output?
>

Checkout the -v option in the manual page. Fvwm now outputs logs to
~/.fvwm/fvwm3-output.log and needs to be turned on. You can turn it on
for a running process using the SIGUSR2 signal.

jaimos